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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV NO. 28
Albany Wins Second
District Class B Boys
Cage Championship
The boys’ basketball tournament
of the Class B schools of the Second
district, held in Blakely last Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, was large
ly attended, created an intense in
terest here in basketball, a game new
to a large number of the local citi
zens, and aroused to a high pitch of
enthusiasm the partisans of the
Class B competing schools.
The contests, which began Thurs
day night and were completed Satur
day night, were staged in the new
basketball shell, a CWA project, on
the campus of the Blakely high
school. Visiting players and fans
were loud in their praise of the new
shell and of the cordial reception
and treatment they received while
guests in this little city.
The Indians of Albany high school
won the championship, the fifth con
secutive year they have copped the
coveted title. Donalsonville’s plucky
quintet, in the final game with the
Dougherty county boys, put up a
splendid scrap, and fought on prac
tically even terms with the Indians
for the first three quarters of the
game, the final "score of which was
20-10.
The opening game of the tourna
ment on Thursday night was between
the Moultrie Packers and the Quit
man team. The Packers demon
strated their superiority and over
whelmed the Brooks county boys
33-11, thus eliminating the Quitman
entry.
The second game of the evening,
Colquitt vs. Camilla, saw the latter
entry eliminated as the Miller county
boys showed their superiority over
their Mitchell county foes, defeating
them by the decisive score of 32-9.
The third game of the evening
brought the Blakely Bobcats into
play with the Pelham boys as their
opponents. The Bobcats, playing
basketball in their first season, and
given little or no chance to win 'n
any of the contests, trounced the
Pelham boys 23-18. A much larger
lead was whittled down by the Pel
ham quintet in the closing minutes
of the game. Supt. Woodward’s
young charges won the admiration of
T, K. Weaver & Co.
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All shades of Solid and Printed
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All Spring shades in Humming Bird
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Lace-trimmed Crepe Slips and
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Spring shades in Anklets 15c and 25c
Pretty styles in Wash Dresses 98c-$1.19
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White Shoes and want you to let us show them to you.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
(Shrrlg County JSew
Success to All Who Pay t Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
the spectators by the manner in
which they “came through” in the
opening game.
Friday afternoon saw two other
entries eliminated when the Moultrie
Packers downed the Thomasville
Bulldogs by the score of 42-21. R.
Powell and Perry were the top
scorers for Moultrie, the former
scoring 14 points and the latter 12.
The Cairo Syrup Makers went
down before the Sylvester Eagles to
the score of 27-14. Durden of
Sylvester, was high point man, scor
ing 12 points. Jeffords, Sylvester
center, closely followed with 11
points.
Blakely’s Bobcats 'and Colquitt’s
Tigers were removed as champion
ship contenders Friday night when
Donalsonville applied a coat of
whitewash to the Blakely entry, 28-0,
and the Albany Indians trounced the
Miller county boys 37-6. The Bob
cats, perhaps a bit stagefrightened
at facing such a formidable foe as
the Seminolians, were wild with their
shots, missing many shots which had
seemed easy to them the night be
fore. They appeared better on de
fense and did well in holding their
opponents to a 28-0 point score, al
though! they were never able to make
any headway in penetrating the
Donalsonville defense.
Albany experienced little diffi
culty in subduing Colquitt, T. Brown
leading the scoring for the Indians
with 8 points.
Saturday morning’s semi-finals
brought together Moultrie and Al
bany and Sylvester and Donalson
ville. The Moultrie entry went down
in defeat by Coach Lee’s Albany
Indians to the score of 22-11. while
Donalsonville disposed of the Syl
vester threat by the score of 27-15.
This left the Albany and Donalson
ville quintets the survivors who were
to meet in the final on Saturday
night to decide the Second district
Champions. The “dope” had run
true to form, most sports writers
having picked Albany as the survivor
of the teams of the higher bracket
and Donalsonville of the lower. The
game was one of science and skill,
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH
NEW MEMBER IS
RECEIVED INTO
ROTARY CLUB
“BILL” BOYETT RECEIVES WEL
COME. ROSTER INCLUDES
TWENTY-THREE NAMES
Another member was added to
the roster of the Blakely Rotary
Club and received a cordial wel
come from the members at last
Thursday’s luncheon, bringing the
club membership up to 23. Mr. Ed
win S. (“Bill”) Boyett, who came
in under the classification of retail
dry goods, was officially welcomed
by President Hall and responded
with a short talk.
The Rotarians heard a most in
teresting talk by Rotarian Gunter
relative to the anti-typhus cam
paign to be waged by the U. S. Bio
logical Survey in co-operation with
the State Board of Health in the
counties of Early, Calhoun and Ran
dolph, which is a campaign supple
mentary to the present CWA project.
Rotarian Jim Grist called attention
to the fact that the Club’s interest
many months ago in the anti-typhus
campaign resulted in the appoint
ment of a committee to take the
matter up with the Federal and
State authorities, and Rotarian Gun-1
ter, who was made chairman of the
committee, kept steadily “on the I
job” until he got the desired re-'
suits. The Club’s agitation dates
back beyond the CWA anti-rat cam-;
paign in this section.
The Club’s attention was called’
to the honor recently bestowed up-'
on Rotarian Barnett Solomon, who
was elected a member of the na- 1
tional board of control of the pea
nut growing and milling industry.
Rotarian Woodward discussed
briefly the new basketball shell and
the tournament which was to be
held here the latter part of the week.'
Rotarian Boyett had as his guest
Mr. Hampton Jennings, of Thomas
ville, and Mr. W. C. Blakstone, of
Albany, representative of the Gulf
Refining Co., was a guest of Rota
rian Bob Puckett.
with the Albany quintet displaying a
defense almost impossible to pene
trate. Large numbers of fans were
in the shell and manifested much en
thusiasm in the fortunes of their
favorites. The game was hard
fought, cleanly played, and in justice
to the victors, it must be said they
outplayed their Seminole county op
ponents. The large shell was packed
to capacity, with perhaps the larger
number “pulling” for the boys of the
smaller town.
As a preliminary to the Albany-
Donalsonville championship contest,
the Blakely Bobcats and the Thomas
ville Bulldogs engaged in a fast
game, which resulted in a 25-14
victory for the visitors. The Bob
cats showed to much better advant
age in this tilt than in the game
with Donalsonville on the previous
night.
Sup. Wade Woodward, Jr., and
. Coach J. A. Hammack are to be con
gratulated upon the excellent man
ner in which they handled the event.
They are appreciative of the assist
ance rendered by the citizens of
Blakely in helping to care for the
visitors and in other ways. As a
result of the tournament it may
safely be said that basketball will in
future prove a drawing card in
Blakely.
From every angle, the tournament
was a success.
ALL-ASSOCIATION TEAM
SELECTED
Following the championship game,
an all-tourney team selected by
coaches and officials was announced
as follows:
FORWARDS: Brown and Allen,
Albany; Letchas, Thomasville; Rob
erts, Donalsonville.
CENTERS: Guy Inman, Albany,
and Saunders, Donalsonville.
GUARDS: Lawrence, Albany;
Powell, Moultrie; Jeffords, Sylvester;
Johnson, Colquitt.
WISDOM COMPLETES
AUDIT OF STATE’S
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
DIVERSION OR ROAD FUNDS IS
ONLY CURE FOR CURRENT
DEFICIT, HE SAYS
Diversion of highway funds is the
only permanent cure for the current
deficit in the general fund of Geor
gia, is the statement made by State
Auditor Tom Wisdom.
The Auditor has filed with Gover
nor Talmadge an audit of the state
treasury showing the state finished
1933 with a current deficit of sl,-
316,232 and a total deficit in cash
for all demands of $5,384,355. Wis
dom said diversion of the $1,316,232
from highway funds by legislative
enactment would end the amount
carried over from year to year
since 1927.
At the close of 1933 there was
$1,360,825.04 to the credit of the
highway department on the books of
the treasury. This sum more than
covers the amount Wisdom suggest
ed be diverted to meet the long car
ried debt.
The audit of the treasury lists the
current demands of the state at
$2,254,231 reserve for allocated bal
ances, $623,175 reserve for current
appropriations and $2,000,000 loans
payable, making total current obli
gations for $4,880,406 with cash
and bank balances of only $3,564,175
to meet them.
Unpaid appropriations not includ
ed in the above obligations: Confed
erate pensions $531,600; due com
mon schools $2,256,183; due Elee
mosynary institutions $145,716; $4,-
443 due the state prison farm, mak
ing a total of $4,068,123 in unpaid
anpropriations for the years 1928-
1931, despite the legislature having
written off over $1,000,000 of obli
gations due these agencies and in
stitutions.
The $1,316,232 due on current
demands and $4,068,123 on unpaid
appropriations for previous years
bring the total debts of the state to
$5,384,355 in addition to the bond
ed indebtedness of $4,477,202.17.
Total receipts from state sources
alone in 1933 were $13,004,480 in
the general fund and $16,766,470 in
allocated funds, including the bal
ance carried forward from the pre
vious year.
The general property tax brought
in $3,900,619; the income tax $987,-
601; the agricultural department
$185,023; the public service corpora
tion tax $702,239; the insurance
tax $741,726; the poll tax
>5257,146; the domestic corporation
tax $258,566 and the business li
cense tax $309,079 for the general
fund.
The motor fuel tax brought in
$12,352,748; the automobile tag tax
I $981,390 and the cigar and cigarette
tax $924,661 for allocated funds.
Six cents is the total gasoline tax,
four cents of which go to the high
way department and one cent each
to the state school equalization fund
and to the counties for roads.
The amounts transferred to spend
ing agencies of the state were $270,-
000 to the department of agricul
ture; $99,875 to the comptroller gen
eral; $3,630,141 from the general
funds and $2,465,744 from the allo
cated funds to the department of
education; $144,510 to the gover
nor; $118,231 to the prison commis
sion; $107,600 to the department of
public health; $8,023,589 of allo
cated funds to the state highway
department, $227,028 to the revenue
commission; $147,193 from the gen
eral fund and $991,155 from the al
located funds to the Veterans’ Serv
ice bureau which handles pay for
Confederate pensioners; $1,307,541
to the board of control for eleemosy
nary institutions and $1,358,783 to
the board of control of the Universi
ty system of higher education.
The judicial branch of the state
government cost $344,779 during
the year, of which $69,192 went to
the supreme court, $70,612 to the
court of appeals and $204,974 to
the superior courts.
The session of the legislature held
in January, February and March for
70 days cost $187,346, of which $25,-
290 went to state senators at $7
per day and $14,071 to attaches of
the senate. House members receiv
ed $101,247 and $15,470 to at
taches.
General fund revenue receipts
for 1933 were $8,119,686 as against
$10,110,451 in 1932, a decrease of
19.7 per cent.
Auditor Wisdom informed the
governor that the state deficit was
reduced by $2,141,177 in 1933 but
explained that $1,586,868 of the
reduction resulted from the legisla
ture repealing a number of unpaid
appropriations and $540,000 was re
ceived from the transfer of highway
funds to the general fund for W. and
A. rental notes, leaving a gain of
only $12,308 from current opera
tions.
, 1934.
County Basketball
Tournment Begins
Here This Afternoon
The annual basketball tournament
of the Early county schools will be
gin today (Thursday) in the new
shell on the campus of the Blakely
high school. Three days will be de
voted to the gala event, the finals
to determine the boys’ and girls’
championship teams to be played
Saturday night.
The contests open at 2 o’clock
this afternoon and continue until
10 o’clock, with an hour’s intermis
sion from 6 to 7. The games will
be resumed Friday morning at 10
o’clock, and continue until 10 at
night, with an hour’s intermission at
noon—l to 2—and an hour’s inter
mission in the evening—6 to 7.
Semi-finals will be played Satur
day morning at 9 and 10 o’clock
and the finals Saturday night at 8
and 9 o’clock.
Mrs. McArthur Jones, County
School Superintendent, announces
the following pairings for the tour
nament:
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Damascus Jr. Boys vs. Jakin Jr.
Boys, 2 o’clock.
Hilton Jr. Boys vs. Rowena Jr.
Boys, 3 o’clock.
New Hope Jr. Boys vs. Liberty
Hill Jr. Boys, 4 o’clock.
Union Jr. Boys vs. Springfield Jr.
Boys, 5 o’clock.
Union Sr. Girls vs. Hilton Sr.
Girls, 7 o’clock.
Union Sr. Boys vs. Jakin Sr. Boys,
8 o’clock.
Jakin Sr. Girls vs. Damascus Sr.
Girls, 9 o’clock.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Winners of Hilton-Rowena and
New Hope-Liberty Hill Jr. Boys’
Game, 10 o’clock.
Winners of Union-Springfield and
Jakin-Damascus-Cedar Springs Jr.
Boys’ Game, 11 o’clock.
Jakin Jr. Girls vs. Rowena Jr.
Girls, 12 o’clock.
Liberty Hill Jr. Girls vs. Cedar
Springs Jr. Girls, 2 o’clock.
Damascus Jr. Girls vs. Union Jr.
Girls, 3 o’clock.
Springfield Jr. Girls vs. New Hope
Jr. Girls, 4 o’clock.
Hilton Jr. Girls vs. winners of
Jakin-Rowena Jr. Girls’ Game, 5
o’clock.
Finals between winners in Jr.
Boys’ Games, 7 o’clock.
Finals between winners in Sr.
Girls’ Games, 8 o’clock.
Hilton-Damascus Sr. Boys, 9
o’clock.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
Winners of Damascus-Union and
Springfield-New Hope Jr. Girls. 9
o’clock.
Winners of Liberty Hill vs. Cedar
Springs against winners of Jakin-
Rowena and Hilton Jr. Girls’ Games,
10 o’clock.
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Finals between Jr. Girls’ Teams,
8 o’clock.
Finals between Sr. Boys’ Teams,
9 o’clock.
Much interest is being manifested
in the approaching tournament. The
Early county schools have been play
ing basketball for some time and
there are many excellent quintets
among the schools who will furnish
the spectators with plenty of thrills.
The prices of admission will be 25c
for adults and 10c for children.
Cravey Seeks Land
For Game Refuges
Under Federal Plan
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Thirty-five thousand acres of
Georgia land will be bought by the
government for game preserves, and
Commissioner Zack Cravey of the
state game and fish department has
asked every land owner who can
place large tracts on the market to
communicate with him. If suitable
acreage can be located Commissioner
Cravey plans to divide the 35,000
acres up into seven 5,000-acre game
refuges and he pointed out that since
there are already refuges in the
mountains, it is likely that most of
the new lands will be purchased in
south and middle Georgia.
The land selected for this purpose
must be poor farm lands, with some
good water supply and diversified
grounds, which may be partly in
woodlands, but the majority of which
must have been under cultivation.
The secondary object in this program
is the retirement from agriculture
of fields which have never yielded
a good crop, but which will grow
good cover for game and non-game
birds and animals.
“I am asking that every land own
er who can place a single tract of
four or five thousand acres on the
market for the President’s committee
to purchase as game refuges com
municate with me and furnish a map
of the county, showing the location
of the property and also a map show
ing some of the features of the land
such as streams, springs, fields, lakes,
woodlands, and so on,” said the
Commissioner. “Remember that the
land must come under the classifi
cation of submarginal lands in order
to fall into the conservation program.
“I feel that our refuges should
be placed throughout the state that
they will be of value to the national
program as well as to our own pro
gram of game management. Since
there are already refuges in the
mountains, it is likely that most of
the new lands will be purchased in
south and middle Georgia. Ido want
to see more refuges in the mountains,
however.”